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Ranil Wickremesinghe, Colombo's Prime Minister reported that
Tony Abbot, Australia's Prime Minister made a deal with Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa,
in return for blocking asylum seekers headed for Australia as long as they kept
quiet about alleged abuse. The deal was carried out by people under the
Rajapaksa regime, they made it almost impossible to leave the country. In 2013
Australia sent asylum seekers to camps in islands Manus and Nauru, both
belonging to Papua New Guinea. The new prime minister Wickremesinghe urges
surrounding countries to be more proactive in stepping in when human rights
issues are at hand, referring to the 40,000 Tamil civilians that were killed in
2009 under Rajapaska. To deny those seeking asylum is principally against what
the term is recognized as and for. The UN is created for peace and alliance
between countries which seems to have failed in recognizing human rights
issues, or rather their ability to intervene. The International Human Right’s
law although not truly a law is recognized as a political obligation of nations
to do their best to promote and maintain basic human rights, to recognize when
there is such violation.
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